Pinoy sailors send
home $Og thru banks
FILIPINO sailo$ on for-
eign ocean-goin g ves6els
sent home a record $6.14
billion through the bank-
ing Eystem in
2018, up
4.6 percent or 9270 mii-
lion ftom the 95.87 bil-
lion in 2012 the partv-
list group ACTS-:OFiV
said Sundav.
''The amirunt does not
include monev remitted
via non-bank ihannels as
well as cash Dhvsicallv
brought home'bf sailor's
on vacatio$" saia ACTS-
OFW Rep. Aniceto Bertiz
m.
By counay of origin,
Bertiz said the top sourc-
es of cash transfers from
Filipino sailors last vear
were the United S6tes,
$2.31 billiory Singapore,
$563.85 million: Germa-
ny. $560,98rnillio4 Japarr,
$435.82 milfion: the Onit-
ed Kingdom, 9331.23 nil-
lion; Hong Kong, g275.53
million; the Netherlands.
$259.12 million; Greece,
$174.98 million; Panama,
$153.62 rnillion; Cwrus,
$125.19 million: ani \or-
way, $115.98 million.
"We see the demand
for Filipino sailors rising for poor tamilies to move
steadily in tdndem with int6 the middle class,
international merchant Beftizsaid.
ship haffic, as economies ,,'lhus, we intend to
around the world contin- push a special higher ed_
ue to€xpand," Bertiz sa id. ircation fund thaiwill en_
, . The lnternational courage SUCs, especially
Monetary Fund earlier Lhose -in the provinces, tir
said it expects the global either put ui: new mari-.
economy to grow at 3.5 time irbtituti,s or erpand
percent in 2019 and 3.6 their e\isting marind pro_
percent.in 2020. grams,,,Ber:tiz said. '
I rtrpmo sailors serve Graduales of Bachelor
contain- of.science in Marine
on bulk carriers,
cherni- Transportation and the
er.ships, oil, gas,
cal_and other product Bachelor of Science in
tdnkers, general cargo Marine Engineedng, once
shrps, pure car caffiers licensed and certifj6d, be_
and.tugboats around the come officers on iorligr,
wo1!d shiPs - masters. chi'ef
- - mates,
Mirjy,f r rr pmds a tsd of ficers_in_charge
provrde housekeeping, of a navigational watc"h,
relg.tions, cglinary, chief enp[neers, second
Fues!
front oltice and other engineeriand officers_in_
marntenance services on charge of engineering
crulse ships and floating watcF.
casrnos. Bertiz also cited the
ACTS- need forSUC. tot
^Jvleanwhile,
UhW wants the govem- duce a greater numtdr
"lfpi"_
of
menrlo$vestmore hmds master degree holders in
rn prol_rdmg lrce mari- marine ed-ucation to en_
hme education through sure that maritime
srate um/er$hes and col- schools woujd havehieh_
legeq lsur.s). ly qualified insb"ucbr;in
lvtaflflme educahon the years alead.
_
tor Lhe youth offers a way t6ran ponce pacpaco
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